Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-11-16

IA has commenced. to wreak vengeance On
the witnesses who gave two Of its members
to the rope Mr.. Bunzer was MORALLY
wounded on the 8th, ana twas feared A. O.
Noyes, a banker, had been murdered.
k GENERAL strike Of the tnalsters not con-
nected with brsweries was inaugurated at
Milwaukee on the 9Th The men want
sixty dollars month. an increase OF five
dollars over the present day
ITSwas announced on the Sth that two
notorious gangs of counterfeiters and
criminals that had infested Louisville and
vicinity for some years had been COM
pletely$ broken up by Government de-
tectives &sE 81. 4 s "A
DELEGATES from almost every State in
the Union and Canada were present at the
fifteenth annual session of the American
Public, Health Association, which was held
at Memphis, Tenn. on the 8th. 81
The large barn OF Lambert Fribley, near
New Philadelphia, O., was burned on the
Sth, together with Ave valuable horses,
three COWS and his entire years crop. - 4
EXTENSIVE steel rail manufacturers at
Philadelphia were sangulne of the future
on the Sth, and felt no anxiety because the
Presidents of large railway companies had
not sent in their orders. At the present
price of rails there was no danger frosa for
eign competition. q: s~>sa - y
The losses by fire in the United States
and Canada during October were SO, 769,-
825. against a loss of $12, OOO, 900 in Octo-
Der, 1886, and SIS, ESQ, 900 in October,
1855. The total for the first ten months OF
the current year foot up $1O2, 953, 1875.
against $95, 400, 900 for the corresponding
period of 1886.
The oil-works Of Pierce h Canterbury, at
Boston, were entirely destroyed by fire on
the 9Th Loss 800, 1000. 49,.
In the annual report of Mr. Miller, Com
missioner of Internal Revenue submitted
on the 9th, he estimates that $12O, 900, 600
will be collected from internal revenue tax
alton during the current fiscal year. e'.a
GEORGE GRANT, colored crook and dos
perado, was shot by an officer at Kansas
City on the 9th, falling dead near the spot
where, FIVE years ago, he killed Policeman
Jones. For the latter crime an innocent
negro was lynched by mob. y
CHARLES H. LoCKsLEY (colored), aged
eleven years, was sentenced at Atlanta,
Ga, on the 9th to life-imprisonment for
murder
The main building of the Soldiers
Orphans Home at Davenport, Ia. was burned
on the 9th. Loss, $50, 600; insurance,
500, 600 A flash of lightning caused the
fire. No lives were lost.
ADvICEs of the 9th report the death of
ten pers ons by poison placed in food at a
party given by family named King, in
Delhi, La There was trouble in the party,
and Mrs. King was charged with poisoning
the food. $3.50. "a j.
IT was reported on the 9th that the iron
industry in Northern Michigan had been
almost ruined on account of the scarcity of
charcoal ''.
FIVE of the largest business houses in
Murfreesboro, Tenn. :, We're destroyed by an
incendiary fire on the 9th -.
Two-TH1RDs of the wells in Grant County,
Ind were dry on the 9th The water fam
inc was causing great suffering.
NEWS of the 9th from Matamoras, Tex,
says that nine of the bandits captured by
the military up the river had been executed
CASHIER c. C. CREcu1us, of the suspend
ed Fifth National Bank Of ST Louis, was ar
rested on the 9th on charges of fraud and
forgery, amounting to over 800, 600 The
collapse of the bank was due to his pecula-
tiona sss5 So 80 fzzG g. ~ Ts
| sEvES business places at Cimarron, Kan
were burned on the 9th. u #=4iEs3 5&sG$ ~
THE Agricultural Department at Washing
ton on the 10th reported the yield of the
| corn crop in the country this season at
1850, OOO,O bushels a slight falling off
from the previous season. The potato crop
is placed at 1874, 600, 600 bushels, against
1853, OOO, 900 last year:
The DETROIT :!Es'sgsaing Nsus office was de-
stroyed by fire On the hight Of the lott.
JUSTICE ScEwAB and others in New York
proposed on the 10th to appeal to the toll
ers of the wOrld' to raise fund for the
maintenance OF the families Of the Chicago
Anarchists, who in the future would be
known as the wards of Liberty"
THE officials at the Jail in Chicago were
startled on the morning of the 10th by a
loud report that proceeded from the cell of
the Anarchist, Louis Lingg, and upon in
vesGgation discovered that the desperate
man had mutilated his face horribly by ex-
ploding Illuminating cap in his mouth. He
survived his injuries about six hours, death
ensuing at three oclock in the afternoon
Four men were burned to death on the
10th in Clubhouse on an Arkansas cotton
plantation that was destroyed by fire.
THREE THOUSAND persons paraded in New
York on the evening OF the 10th to show
their sympathy for the doomed Chicago
Anarchists. Black and red flags were car
ried, and the two American flags in the pro-
cession were furled and draped.
i In his annual report on the 10th to the
Secretary of War Paymaster-G General Roch-
ester recommends the extension OF the sys-
TEN of monthly payments to the entire
army s-'=r->
JAMES P. McCABE was hanged on the 10th
at Honesdale, Pa. for the murder Of Michael
Riley.
AN explosion ON the 10th in Rummers
powder-mills at Toledo, o.. destroyed the
buildings. None Of the employees were in
jured. =
RAIN was on the 10th putting stop to
the forest fires that had been raging for
some time in the southern portion Of I'LL
nois and in Southern Indiana n
WILLIAM NJ LOCKE, a retired banker
whose fortunes had become impaired by
unfortunate speculation, committed suicide
on the 10th by shooting at Des Moines, Ia
The National farmers congress held the